1st Edition
Cultivation of Self in East Asian Philosophy of Education
Introduction: Cultivation of self in East Asian philosophy of education
Ruyu Hung
1. Confucianism and critical rationalism: Friends or foes?
Chi-Ming Lam
2. Is filial piety a virtue? A reading of the Xiao Jing (Classic of Filial Piety) from the perspective of ideology critique
Hektor K. T. Yan
3. ‘Keep off the lawn; grass has a life too!’: Re-invoking a Daoist ecological sensibility for moral education in China’s primary schools
Weili Zhao and Caiping Sun
4. The illusion of teaching and learning: Zhuangzi, Wittgenstein, and the groundlessness of language
Michael Dufresne
5. Donghak (Eastern Learning), Self-cultivation, and Social Transformation: Towards diverse curriculum discourses on equity and justice
Seungho Moon
6. Acting without regarding: Daoist self-cultivation as education for non-dichotomous thinking
Joseph Emmanuel D. Sta. Maria
7. The purpose of the MBA degree: The opportunity for a Confucian MBA to overcome neoliberalism
Robert Keith Shaw
8. Agency and social capital in Chinese international doctoral students’ conversion to Christianity
Qun Ding and Nesta Devine
9. Continue the dialogue – symposium of cultivation of self in East Asian philosophy of education
Ruyu Hung
10. Confucius’s view of learning
Yuanbiao Lin
11. Self-cultivation and the legitimation of power: Governing China through education
Bin Wu and Nesta Devine
12. Integrative ethical education: Narvaez’s project and Xunzi’s insight
Yen-Yi Lee
13. Confucius’ Junzi: The conceptions of self in Confucian
Jinhua Song and Xiaomin Jiao
Biography
Ruyu Hung is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Education at the National Chiayi University, Taiwan. She has been awarded a Research Fellowship of Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association and a Fulbright Senior Researcher Scholarship. Her research interests include philosophy of education, ecological philosophy, phenomenology, deconstruction, and Daoism. In recent years, she has extended her research into comparative and intercultural philosophies of education. She is the author of Education between speech and writing: Crossing the boundaries of Dao and deconstruction (2017); and she is the Regional Editor of the Educational Philosophy and Theory journal.
